Word: equinox
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...them selfishly." We come into a room draped with silk cloths. A dozen people?housewives, girls, young men?are sitting in a circle on the floor. Lying in the middle is a blonde, Leslie, around 20. Dennis joins the circle, all 13 witches join hands, and Dennis chants, "Spring equinox, golden son of the mountains, illumine the land!" The blonde, whose name is Leslie, says, "Little things are going wrong, and I know it can't be just bad luck." "Leslie's karma has been messed up," Dennis explains. "We have to locate the spirit." The whole group slides closer...
...weekend of golf, New England has three courses that rank among the best in the nation. First is the Equinox in Manchester, Vermont, the greatest of New England's mountain courses. It's part of the Equinox Hotel, a comfortable spot to spend the weekend...
...campy, or worthy of serious study, or a source of substitute faith, have turned the fad into a phenomenon. Astrologers insist that since their art is actually a science, its renascence was foreordained. The world, they contend, is just entering the Aquarian Age. The movement of the vernal equinox westward at the rate of about 50 seconds a year is bringing it from 2,000 years in the zodiac's sign of Pisces ?characterized by skepticism and disillusionment?to the next 2,000 in Aquarius, an airy sign that will influence the world toward aspiration and faith. The highly...
...vernal equinox has passed. Soon the graceful languor which invariably overtakes Cambridge this time of year will be attributed once again to a subtle combination of Spring and hour exams. But the real reason for that feeling of being "unaccountably pooped," says Dr. John T. Middleton, a leading expert on air pollution, is a common air pollutant known as nitric oxide...
According to thousands of Pennsylvanians, spring arrives March 16, exactly six weeks after a groundhog in Chester Valley Knoll sees his own shadow and crawls back into his hole. According to astronomers, who gaze at the vernal equinox and not the infernal snow, spring will burst forth at 8:53 p.m. March 20. But to millions of U.S. gardeners, spring officially begins the minute they stroll through the local flower show and receive their newest seed catalogue-and many of them have...